TechEye - Paul Otellini at Intel's job is on the line - Commentshttp://www.techeye.net/chips/paul-otelliniaintels-job-is-on-the-line
Sources very close to the board at the Intel Corporation are wondering quite how long the current CEO and president Paul Otellini can hang on in there.http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specificationen-GBMon, 20 Sep 2010 14:54:10 GMTBy: annoThe remark that ARM arrogantly attempts to take marketshare from Intel strikes me as very odd too. Isn't that exactly what Intel is trying to do with ARM too? Why would Intel not be arrogant then?
You do strike a good point with Intel having to do things in the very near term though. ARM's Eagle is on its way, and that might make things very difficult for Intel. It clearly has the instruction advantage.
What especially makes me wonder is that the Atom core architecture seems to have been standing still for ages. For over two years now, in fact, and some whisper the next architecture (and with this I don't mean just a die shrink) may even appear only in 2013. AMD pretty much made a whole new low power architecture in that time, being Bobcat... If they're really serious about this, surely they'd put some more effort in it?
With the Larrabee failure in mind, it kind of makes me wonder whether there may actually be (and this statement may shock some) a limit to Intel's R&D capabilities.http://www.techeye.net/chips/paul-otelliniaintels-job-is-on-the-line#comment-21341
http://www.techeye.net/chips/paul-otelliniaintels-job-is-on-the-line#comment-21341Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:54:10 GMTannoBy: rich wargox86 and windows on a phone? Given their abysmal track record in areas of security, reliability, useability? I'd rather go back to rotary dial.
No, my supposedly learned friend, the answer is to let the marketplace decide winners and losers. And as far as your comment about ARM 'arrogantly" attempting to move into Intel's 'own backyard'? What a pant load. Intel has no right or reason to expect to 'own' anything, much less a backyard. They should have to continue to innovate to maintain market share in any area. If you don't continue making your customers happy, then you LOSE! If ARM's licensees can make better (from the perspective of customers) devices than Intel, SO BE IT.http://www.techeye.net/chips/paul-otelliniaintels-job-is-on-the-line#comment-21325
http://www.techeye.net/chips/paul-otelliniaintels-job-is-on-the-line#comment-21325Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:36:31 GMTrich wargoBy: Peter ChanWhat exactly is their strategy? If it's placing x86 architecture on a phone, that's possible and quite possibly attractive to consumers who are familiar with Windows; the hardware part could reasonably rely on Moore's Law to eventually reduce the chip footprint to become competitive with ARM in power usage (or at least as regards future Atoms against current ARM processors); on the software side, Microsoft would probably only require a minor retweaking instead of a major port on ARM, or Intel could encourage or develop their own flavour of Linux.
So off-hand, it most likely requires that Intel engineers achieve that power envelope in the very near term, before ARM not only consolidates it's hold on this market, but arrogantly attempts an incursion into Intel's own backyard, especially the lucrative mobile computing one, starting with Tablets, moving on to netbooks and possibly, assuming business applications and gaming becomes possible, laptops and desktop substitutes.
No idea how ARM rates now or in future versions as a server or super computer.http://www.techeye.net/chips/paul-otelliniaintels-job-is-on-the-line#comment-21275
http://www.techeye.net/chips/paul-otelliniaintels-job-is-on-the-line#comment-21275Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:25:39 GMTPeter Chan